3 Best Astra AI Alternatives for Students

Astra AI is an AI tutor that turns your notes, slides and past papers into a personalized study plan for your next exam.

It's a popular app: Astra claims more than 18 million students and a 4.7 rating on the App Store:

Here are my favorite alternatives to Astra AI, starting with the app I created myself.

1. Boterview: The Best Alternative to Astra AI for Active Learning

Astra AI's main promise is to turn your study materials into a study plan.

Boterview does the same: import a PDF, an image, or simply type a topic, and the AI builds a complete course with units, lessons and interactive challenges.

To test it, I asked Boterview to prepare me for a biology exam on mitosis and meiosis, and it built the whole course in less than a minute:

I built Boterview based on the idea that passive learning is not the same as learning.

That's why every lesson makes you answer instead of just reading. In my cell division course, I first had to sort examples by the reason cells divide:

Then put the steps before cell division in the right order:

And answer multiple-choice questions that check whether I really understood why cells divide:

I picked a wrong answer on purpose, and the AI tutor immediately explained why it was wrong:

You can also practice out loud with the AI tutor, which is great for oral exams.

And flashcards with spaced repetition bring key concepts back right before you forget them.

Go here if you want to try boterview's AI:

2. Khanmigo: The Best Alternative to Astra AI for Guided Tutoring

Astra AI gives you step-by-step explanations whenever you're stuck.

Khanmigo, the AI tutor built by the nonprofit Khan Academy, takes the opposite approach: it never gives you the answer.

Instead, it asks you questions that push you to work out the solution yourself.

I really like this Socratic approach, because the effort of finding the answer is exactly what makes you remember it.

Khanmigo also includes a writing coach, debates, and even conversations with historical characters.

Where Astra AI starts from your own materials, Khanmigo is built around Khan Academy's courses, so it shines most when your subject is covered there.

3. Gemini Notebook: The Best Alternative to Astra AI for Studying From Your Notes

If what you like about Astra AI is uploading your notes and studying from them, Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) is a great alternative.

It only answers based on the sources you add. For my test, I added the Wikipedia pages on mitosis and meiosis and asked it to explain the difference as if I had an exam tomorrow:

The answer came with an exam summary, a comparison table, and citations pointing to the exact passage in each source.

It also generates flashcards, quizzes, study guides and podcast-style Audio Overviews. Here is the quiz it created from my two pages:

What I appreciate most is that every answer in the quiz comes with a short explanation, including the wrong ones.

On the other hand, it won't build a study plan around your exam date the way Astra AI does, so you have to organize your revision yourself.